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The Problem of the Fifth Modernization—A Review Article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

James P. Harrison
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Abstract

Statements on Democracy Wall in Beijing and in posters and underground publications throughout China, especially in 1978 and 1979, document in depth for the first time the arguments of Chinese dissidents. The dissidents maintain that without “the Fifth Modernization” of guaranteed personal freedoms and “true socialist democracy,” the four modernizations cannot succeed and China cannot become a “great socialist country.” Recent publications, some of which are reviewed in this article, give a fair sampling of these arguments and must be taken into account in future evaluations of the Chinese Revolution.

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Articles: Peasant Strategies in Asian Societies: Moral and Rational Economic Approaches—A Symposium
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , August 1983 , pp. 869 - 878
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Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983

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